City to Offer Translation Services to Immigrants
Leave your thoughtsMayor Michael Bloomberg’s order that city agencies provide translations for the six most spoken languages means immigrants won’t have to…
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Complaint: Pharmacies Should Help Non-English Speakers
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant advocacy groups (including Make the Road New York) are charging that 16 pharmacies in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island…
Report: English Learners Find it Hard to Get into NYC Schools
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant students who struggle to master English don’t have the same access to the city’s small schools as their peers…
Immigrant Rights Backers Rally, Thousands March for Reform in D.C., but Low Turnout Elsewhere may Show Movement is Losing Traction
Leave your thoughtsWASHINGTON – Carlos Canales swam up the Rio Grande into Texas two decades ago. He carried his 4-year-old daughter on…
Protest at Bklyn Grocery
Leave your thoughtsA community activist group has filed a complaint with State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer alleging that a Bushwick supermarket illegally…
NY Immigrants Rally, Take Part in National Boycott
Leave your thoughtsSome small businesses were closed in the city Monday and day laborers shunned the suburban shape-up sites where they usually…